Predicting the Compositionality of Multiword Expressions Using Translations in Multiple Languages
Bahar Salehi, Paul F. Cook · Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics · 2013
In this paper, we propose a simple, languageindependent and highly effective method for predicting the degree of compositionality of multiword expressions (MWEs). We compare the translations of an MWE with the translations of its components, using a range of different languages and string similarity measures. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the method on two types of English MWEs: noun compounds and verb particle constructions. The results show that our approach is competitive with or superior to state-of-the-art methods over standard datasets.